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State of New York. 

Report of the State Agri- 
cultural Advisory Board to 
the Governor. February, 1913, 







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STATE OF NEW YORK 



REPORT 



OF THE 



State Agricultural Advisory Board 



TO THE GOVERNOR 



TRANSMITTED TO THE LEGISLATURE FEBRUARY 17, J9J3 



ALBANY 

J. B. LYON COMPANY, PRINTERS 

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STATE OF NEW YORK 



REPORT 



OF THE 



State Agricultural Advisory Board 



TO THE GOVERNOR 



TRANSMITTED TO THE LEGISLATURE FEBRUARY 17, 1913 



ALBANY 

J. B. LYON COMPANY, PRINTERS 

1913 



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D. OF D. 
MAR 13 1913 



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State of New York 



No. 36. 



IN ASSEMBLY 

February 17, 1913. 



REPORT OF THE STATE AGRICULTURAL 
ADVISORY BOARD. 



Albany, N. Y., January 31, 1913. 

Honorable William Sulzer % Governor of Nezv York, 
Executive Chamber, Albany, N. Y.: 

Dear Sir. — Pursuant to requirements of chapter 785 
of the Laws of 191 1, the State Advisory Board in relation 
to agricultural education and country life advancement, 
has the honor to report as follows : 

At a meeting held in the office of Honorable Andrew 
S. Draper, Commissioner of Education, Albany, N. Y., 
on January 14, 191 3, on motion of Dr. Boothe C. Davis, 
seconded by Dr. V. A. Moore, it was voted that the 
chairman and secretary transmit to Governor Sulzer, on 
or before February 1, a copy of the resolutions adopted 
at a meeting of this Board held December 27, 191 2; and 



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also a copy of the resolutions on the sale and shipment 
of immature calves, and regarding agricultural publica- 
tions, adopted at this meeting, as follows : 

At a meeting held December 27, 19 1 2, the following 
members being present: 

Dean L. H. Bailey, 

Dr. W. H. Jordan, 

Dean H. E. Cook, 

Dr. Thos. E. Finegan, representing Commissioner 

A. S. Draper, 
Dr. Boothe C. Davis, 
Mr. Jas. A. D. S. Findlay, 
Director Frank G. Helyar, 
Dr. V. A. Moore, 
Mr. H. B. Winters, representing Commissioner 

Calvin J. Huson. 

(Absent: Hon. Chas. A. Wieting, Hon. Ralph 
W. Thomas.) 

it was voted, 

That this Board reaffirm its position on the following 
resolutions: 

1. That the main effort toward the introduction of 
agricultural education, whether through State or local 
aid, be directed toward the study of agricultural and rural 
subjects in the public high schools. 

2. That in addition to those institutions already 
authorized to train teachers of agriculture, special and 
adequate provisions be made for training such teachers 
at the State Normal College and in one or more normal 
schools. 

3. That the State Department of Education give 
direction, at a few points distributed with reference to the 
leading agricultural industries, to the development of 



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adequate teaching equipments in high schools which may 
serve as examples and illustrations for the further exten- 
sion of such equipment. 

4. That the special State schools already established 
be developed toward teaching home economics and agri- 
cultural technology, the latter somewhat specialized for 
each school. 

5. That the further development of the special State 
schools, when this may safely and wisely be accomplished, 
shall be made with reference chiefly to the fruit and 
vegetable growing interests, under which policy the south- 
eastern and western parts of the State would be considered 
by the establishment of one school in each of those 
sections ; and thereafter special schools of agriculture 
shall be established only if the people of a locality deter- 
mine whether they desire a school and will take a sub- 
stantial part in its financial support. 

6. That this Board favors legislation enabling cities 
of the first and second class to establish public schools of 
agriculture either within or without the limits of said cities. 

7. That in schools of agriculture hereafter established, 
the Commissioner of Education, the Commissioner of 
Agriculture, and the Director of the State College of 
Agriculture at Cornell University, shall be ex-ofificio 
members of the board of trustees. 

Voted, 
That this Board reaffirm the following; resolutions: 
Such national legislation as is contemplated by the so- 
called Page bill and those similiar to it, is inadvisable on 
the following grounds : 

1. It is coercive as to policy and method and is unduly 
stimulating as to rate of growth of vocational education. 
It violates the biological law governing the sound and 
efficient development of educational and social agencies. 



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2. It proposes an educational scheme on an immense 
scale for which there is little experimental support. 

3. It is not adjustable to the educational policy and 
administrative machinery already established in many 
states, including New York. 

4. It opens the way for bureaucratic regulations on 
the part of the federal government that might limit the 
autonomy of the states in the administration of their 
educational affairs. 

5. This bill is in opposition to the sound policy of 
fostering the agriculture and country life of a state, 
through the activity of state agencies which shall have 
their source in local initiative support. 

6. The agricultural extension bill, providing for exten- 
sion work in agriculture by the colleges of agriculture, is 
practically free from the objections that hold against the 
other measures herein mentioned that are now before 
Congress, in that it is in harmony with the acts of 1862 
and supplementary acts granting federal aid to state 
agencies. 

Therefore be it 

Resolved, That if the policy is adopted of return- 
ing to a state for specific purposes a portion of the income 
that the federal government derives from the indirect 
taxation of the citizens of that state, the state should have 
the same liberty in the application of these funds to the 
purposes named that it has in the use of any other portion 
of its income. 



Voted, 

That the following resolution be reaffirmed : 

That this Board recommends to the State: The policy 
of the further introduction of instruction in agriculture into 
the public schools; and that to better accomplish this 



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result, plans should be perfected as rapidly as possible for 
maintaining agricultural instruction with large allot- 
ments; and that an allotment be provided each school, 
union or high school, teaching a class of not less than 15 
in agriculture, and for the common district school giving 
an approved course in nature study. 



At a meeting held January 14, 1913, the following 
members being present : 

Dean L. H. Bailey, 

Dr. W. A. Jordan, 

Dean H. E. Cook, 

Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, representing Commis- 
sioner A. S. Draper, 

Dr. Boothe C. Davis, 

Mr. Jas. A. D. S. Findlay, 

Director Frank G. Helyar, 

Dr. V. A. Moore 

Hon. Ralph W. Thomas, 

Mr. H. B. Winters, representing Commissioner 
Calvin J. Huson. 

(Absent: Hon. Chas. A. Wieting.) 

it was voted, 

That this Board adopt the following resolution : 

Resolved, That the law relating to the sale and 
shipment of immature calves and carcasses be modified 
so that the age limit will be three weeks instead of four 
weeks and thus conform with the federal law. 



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Voted, 

That this Board adopt the following resolution : 

Resolved, That it be recommended in the report 
of this Board to the Governor that all agricultural books 
be hereafter distributed by the institution or State depart- 
ment by which such publications are prepared. 
Respectfully submitted, 

L. H. BAILEY, 

Chairman. 
HARRY B. WINTHROP, 

Secretary Pro Tern. 



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